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# Announcing Elements 9.1
- URL: https://blogs.remobjects.com/2017/05/25/announcing-elements-9-1/
- Published: 2017-05-25T17:16:25.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-22T06:17:38.000Z
- Author: marc hoffman
- Tags: #Import 2026-08-17 20:17

This week, we have shipped the long anticipated Elements 9.1, the latest version of or multi-platform, multi-language compiler tool chain.

I'm very excited about this release, and an extensive overview of what's new can be found on our all-new website, [here](http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/whatsnew91?ref=blogs.remobjects.com). But i want to highlight a few areas that were touched by the almost 5000 commits since we shipped 9.0 last November.

As always, **Fire** has received a lot of attention, with many improvements, enhancements and new features, as well as performance and stability streamlining. I personally work in Fire on an "underpowered" 12-inch MacBook every single day, and it performs incredibly fast even on that, and better yet with 9.1\. Fire also gains a new Interactive Debug Console, full support for managing Gradle references, Auto-Fix support (which is amazing), code editor improvements, and *so* much more.

![](http://www.elementscompiler.com/images/fire/Fire91-DebugConsole@2x.png)

**Island**, our new platform for using the Elements languages to write CPU-native code has seen many fixes and improvements, including support for two new platforms (Linux/ARM, and Android NDK extensions), coverage by our new Elements RTL and by the Delphi RTL compatibility library, and – and this is really cool; – the ability to run Linux apps locally in in the Linux Subsystem on Windows 10!

We've seen huge interest and **influx from Delphi developers** coming over to Elements, and Oxygene in particular, aided by the ability to now write CPU-native code with Island, use common Delphi RTL functions and classes with, well, **Delphi RTL** (which also got vastly improved for 9.1), and the option to use our new [Hydra 5](http://hydra.remobjects.com/?ref=blogs.remobjects.com), shipped last month, to mix Island, .NET and classic Delphi one app.

Version 9.1 also includes our new **Elements RTL**, which supersedes Sugar as our (optional) base library for writing code hat can be shared across platforms.

Last but certainly not least, i want to mention that Elements 9.1 adds support for Microsoft's new **Visual Studio 2017**. Use your favorite Elements languages, for your favorite platforms, right from this new and improved version of Microsoft's flagship IDE for Windows.

## Get It Now

As always, Elements 9.1 is a free update for all users with an active subscription, and also available as a [free 30-day trial](http://elementscompiler.com/elements/download?ref=blogs.remobjects.com). Use of Silver, our version of the Swift language in Elements, of course remains completely free.

I'm *really* excited about this release, and i hope you are, too.

yours,  
marc

P.S. lest i forget, we also posted a first sneak peek at [Water](http://elementscompiler.com/elements/water?ref=blogs.remobjects.com), our upcoming IDE for Windows. Hope you like it!

![](http://www.elementscompiler.com/images/product-logos/v91-1024.png)